It has been two days since the Detective Boys returned back to their time period. And the Doctor decided to also stick around on Earth to hang out with them.
The trio invited Conan and the child-looking Time Lord to join them to watch a Kamen Yaiba (a “Power Rangers-style” kids show) theatrical show at the local Department Store. Conan, fearing that his cover would be blown up, he reluctantly accepted. The Doctor, on the other hand, had never heard about Kamen Yaiba and was incredibly curious about it. Shiho, however, politely rejected the invite, deciding to wait for them in the TARDIS (the Doctor wasn’t sure to leave all alone there, but at the end he accepted it).
So, they went to watch the show. Conan, since it was a kids show, found it utterly boring.
The Doctor however, found it absolutely amazing. For a bizarre reason, the action of the show (even if his adventures were a lot more exciting) gave him some good ol’ adrenaline.
The group even received an autograph by Kamen Yaiba and had a photo with them.
The evening arrived and the group left the Department Store.
“My goodness, that was FANTASTIC!” the Doctor said, thrilled.
"Yup! Kamen Yaiba is amazing!" Mitsuhiko said.
"I'm happy you enjoyed it!" Ayumi smiled.
"Are you sure you aren't actually a child, Doctor?" Conan whispered to the Doctor, with a sarcastic tone.
"Heh, probably. It seems that's how my personality is now, due to my child body." the Doctor whispered back.
"What do you mean by that?" Conan asked, confused by how casually the Time Lord talked about different personalities.
"Regeneration is a tricky thing, I'll explain it one day." The Doctor said.
"AH!" Genta screamed in terror.
"What's wrong, Genta?" Ayumi asked.
"My Kamen Yaiba autograph! It disappeared!" Genta said, panicking.
"Calm down, will you?" Conan said, "Ayumi, please, could you pass me that photo?"
"Sure!" Ayumi pulled out the photo depicting the team with Kamen Yaiba out of her pocket and gave it to the bespectacled boy.
All of the TARDIS team were holding their autographs.
"You probably lost it when we were still at the Department Store, since you still had it when we took the photo." Conan said.
"If I recall correctly, Genta then said that he was hungry."
Genta had an epiphany. "You're right! Now I remember now! I left it when I went to that hot dog stand!" He said, "Okay, I'm gonna get it back!"
"I think it's too late now, the Department Store is probably closed by now."
"I don't care! I'm going back!" Genta ran towards the Department Store, followed by Ayumi and Mitsuhiko.
"I guess we have to follow them." the Doctor said.
"Yeah…God, why can't I keep my mouth shut sometimes?!" Conan said.
The two followed the children to the Department Store.
There was a guard outside of the main entrance.
"Be quick! The security system will be on in 10 minutes!" He warned the remaining customers in the building.
"You heard him, we have 10 minutes. It's better if we give up." Conan tried to persuade the Detective Boys. However, it wasn’t effective.
“So what?” Genta said, “10 minutes is a lot of time!”
While the guard was distracted, the Detective Boys, followed by the Doctor and a reluctant Conan.
They entered the lift and arrived at the roof floor.
The group split up the searching and, as Conan deducted, the autograph was still on that hot dog stand.
“Found it!” Genta happily said.
Mitsuhiko checked his watch. “Guys!” He said, panicking, “The security system is about to activate!”
“WHAT?!” Everyone minus the Doctor said.
The group rushed to the main entrance but, unfortunately, it was already closed.
Then, the lights turned off.
“Aaaaah, what should we do now?!” Mitsuhiko said.
“Doctor, do you think you can do something about it?” Ayumi asked.
“Why, yes, I could. I just need to find the circuit that blocks the doors and hijack it with my sonic screwdriver.” he said.
“Or maaaybe…We can go to the security guards and ask them to unlock the door.” Conan proposed an easier solution.
The Doctor was a bit annoyed. “Yeah, that would work too…Tsk, boring…”
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“The security should be on the B2 floor.” Mitsuhiko said.
Thus, the TARDIS team took the lift again went to the floor B2
When they arrived, the door of the security room was slightly opened, so the Doctor took a chance to peek.
Inside there was the actor who played Kamen Yaiba during the show, along with the actors that played the villain.
“That’s Kamen Ya-” the Doctor put his hand on Ayumi’s mouth.
“Where’s the Jewelry?” one of the villain actors said.
“It should be on the 6th floor, while the antique store is on the 7th.” the Kamen Yaiba actor said.
the Doctor glanced and noticed that the guards were held hostage.
“Hey, do we really need to wear these things? They’re too tight!” One of the actors said.
The Kamen Yaiba actor sighed. “Fine, I guess they wouldn’t find that this store was going to be robbed by non-humans!”
Then he, along with the other two actors, started unzipping their foreheads, removing their human skin as if it was a suit.
The children assisted at the scene, both perplexed and horrified.
From it, huge humanoids with large eyes and powerful arms with long claws came out.
“Ah, much better.” One of the aliens said.
“W-What are they?!” Genta whispered.
“If I recall correctly, they’re Raxacoricofallapatorians, bulky aliens who can disguise as smaller humanoids by using a compression field." the Doctor said.
The children were confused by the overly long name, but ignored it.
"Great, we have to deal with alien thieves now." Conan thought.
“I wonder however why they are robbing a department store on Earth.” the Time Lord thought, “Perhaps there is something here on Earth that there isn’t on other planets? Or is it because Earth is an easy target, considering it’s very primitive?”
“What should we do? We can’t let the Police deal with them!” Ayumi said.
“She’s right, we have to defeat them by ourselves.” Conan said.
The TARDIS team sneakily walked away but suddenly, Genta’s stomach growled, attracting the attention of the Raxacoricofallapatorian criminals and immediately blowing up the team’s cover.
“What was that?” One of the aliens said.
“RUN!” The Doctor screamed, he and his companions ran as fast as they could, while being chased by the criminals.
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Meanwhile, a teenage girl with hip-length dark hair with a pointed tuft and large blue eyes came back home, at the Mouri Detective Agency.
Her name was Ran Mouri, Shinichi’s childhood friend who (unaware of his current predicament) along with his divorced father Kogoro (a Detective that Conan uses as a meat puppet to tell his deductions to the Police) is hosting at her home the bespectacled child.
“I’m home! Sorry if I’m late, I chatted with a friend and I lost track of time.” Ran said. She looked around the house and found Kogoro still sleeping.
Conan, however, wasn’t at home.
Ran went to wake up her father to search for some explanation.
“Dad, hey, wake up…” She tried the gentle way. It was ineffective, so she used the hard way by removing the pillow Kogoro was resting on, making him bang his head on the floor.
“Ow!”
It worked.
“Why did you wake me up, Ran?” Kogoro complained.
“Where’s Conan? Why hasn't he come home yet?” Ran asked.
“I don’t know, the brat went to the Department Store, didn’t he? His friends said that they were going to watch a show there.
“It’s already dark outside, why isn’t he here?” Ran asked, starting to get worried.
Then, she went to the phone and called the store. The voicemail answered instead.
Then she called the parents of each of the Detective Boys, asking for them.
However, they all gave the same answer: Their children also weren’t at home. They also said they were with a transfer student they recently befriended, a boy named “John Smith”,
She then called the Police, reporting the kids’ disappearance, hoping she would have more luck with.
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Meanwhile, the TARDIS team was running for their lives against the criminals. Luckily, thanks to the Doctor and Conan’s quick wit, they always managed to escape them.
“I’m so…Tired!” Genta said, panting.
So, they hid behind a cashier desk, where they ate some snacks.
The snacks’ deliciousness partially raised their morale (especially Genta’s).
“These donuts are so good!” Genta said, happily.
“I promise I’ll pay for these if we manage to leave safe and sound!” Ayumi said.
“...We might not even do that…” Mitsuhiko said, quite scared about their situation.
“Don’t say that! I’m sure everything will be fine!” Ayumi reassured her friend, “Conan and the Doctor will find a way, I’m sure of it!”
Conan sheepishly chuckled and the Doctor smiled softly, flattered by the little girl’s trust in them.
“Well then, let’s go, I think I know a way we can defeat them.” the Doctor said.
“Really? What is it?”
“You see, Raxacoricofallapatorians are calcium-based, so they are vulnerable to acetic acid. It would make them explode, but if we don’t use too much, we would simply weaken them. Now, follow me!”
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Later, the alien criminals patrolled the floors, searching for the TARDIS team.
One of them approached the floor the group was hiding, but they were now ready for their counterattack.
“Ready guys?” the Doctor said, on a bike.
The human companions were also on bikes and put their helmets on.
“Now!”
The TARDIS team rushed with their bikes against the criminal, while dragging a net and capturing him.
“What was that?!” Another alien criminal said.
“It must be those humans! Let’s get them!
Then they enacted their second trap, by putting water and a little bit of vinegar (enough to weaken them but not kill them).
At the end, the TARDIS team managed to capture all the members of Raxacoricofallapatorians.
“We did it!” The Detective boys cheered.
“Excellent work, guys.” Conan said.
Mitsuhiko yawned. “I’m so sleepy…”
Ayumi and Genta did the same, all of them were tired by this adventure.”
“Well, I suppose we can take a rest now.” the Doctor said.
The group, after making sure to completely immobilise the aliens, took a couple of tents, blankets and pillows to make a big loose bed for them.
The Doctor then contacted the Shadow Proclamation, the “Galactic Police” to collect the criminals and then joined his companions.
He noticed that they, Conan included, had already fallen asleep near the main hall.
“Heh, how adorable…” the Doctor thought, as he quietly laid down next to them.
He didn’t really need sleeping, since his species, the Time Lords, can go without sleep for nearly a year, but went along with it.
He tried to fall asleep by looking at the roof, keeping his mind busy, until Ayumi, who was next to him, subconsciously clinged to his arm and nuzzled against it.
“Aww, she must think I’m a teddy bear or something.” the Doctor thought, smiled.
He gently ruffles up her hair
“Sweet dreams, dear.” he whispered.
Eventually, he fell asleep too.
The next day, the Police, called by Ran, stormed the Department Store, where they were seen last time.
However, everything was fine, only a group of five children sleeping.
<------To Be Continued--------